Philosophical Inquiry : Classic and Contemporary Readings
ISBN: 9780872208674 | 0872208672
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
Pub. Date: 9/7/2007
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This meticulously edited anthology provides a comprehensive, problems-oriented entrée to philosophy. Substantial readings from major classical and contemporary thinkers - featuring many of Hackett's widely acclaimed translations - are supported by a general introduction, engaging introductions to each major topic, and a glossary of important philosophical terms.
| Why Study Philosophy? | |
| The Nature of Knowledge | |
| Meno | p. 7 |
| "The Myth of the Cave" | p. 23 |
| "The Nature of Knowledge"* | p. 27 |
| "How A Priori Knowledge Is Possible" | p. 32 |
| "The A Priori and the Necessary"* | p. 35 |
| "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?" | p. 43 |
| "An Analysis of Knowledge"* | p. 44 |
| Skepticism and the Scope of K... MORE | |
| Meditations on First Philosophy | p. 50 |
| "The Problem of the Criterion" | p. 77 |
| "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" | p. 85 |
| "Philosophical Scepticism and Everyday Life," selections | p. 95 |
| "Skepticism" | p. 108 |
| Perceptual and Inductive Knowledge | |
| "Origins of Our Ideas and Knowledge"* | p. 115 |
| Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, selections | p. 141 |
| "Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge" | p. 168 |
| An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, selections | p. 175 |
| "Reflections on the Common Theory of Ideas" | p. 207 |
| "On Induction" | p. 216 |
| "The New Riddle of Induction," selections | p. 220 |
| Causation and the Nature of Reality | |
| "Why Anything? Why This?" | p. 231 |
| Monadology | p. 243 |
| "The Four Causes,"* selections | p. 251 |
| "Causation," selections | p. 265 |
| "Why Ask ''Why?'" | p. 274 |
| "Evolution as a Universal Acid"* | p. 285 |
| Identity and Personal Identity | |
| "The Statue and the Clay" | p. 296 |
| "On Identity"* | p. 310 |
| "Of Identity," selections | p. 318 |
| A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality, selections | p. 321 |
| "Personal Identity" | p. 334 |
| Freedom of the Will | |
| "The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism" | p. 346 |
| "Human Freedom and the Self" | p. 353 |
| "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person" | p. 360 |
| "Are We Free to Break the Laws?" | p. 369 |
| "Moral Luck" | p. 373 |
| "Sensations and Brain Processes" | p. 384 |
| "The Nature of Mental States" | p. 391 |
| "The Intentional Stance and Why It Works" | p. 397 |
| "Three Cheers for Prepositional Attitudes" | p. 409 |
| "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" | p. 421 |
| "Epiphenomenal Qualia" | p. 427 |
| "Brains in a Vat" | p. 433 |
| Major Theories | |
| Euthyphro | p. 450 |
| Nicomachean Ethics | p. 459 |
| Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals | p. 474 |
| "Understanding and Defending Utilitarianism"* | p. 493 |
| "Against Slavish Moralities"* | p. 503 |
| Motivation, Self-Interest, and the Good Life | |
| Apology | p. 517 |
| "Hobbes" | p. 529 |
| "The Myth of Sisyphus" | p. 542 |
| "The Experience Machine" | p. 544 |
| Metaethics | |
| "The Emotive and Social Basis of Ethics"* | p. 546 |
| "The Subjectivity of Values" | p. 554 |
| "Two Concepts of Rules" | p. 565 |
| "What's Wrong with Lying?" | p. 577 |
| Applications | |
| "The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect" | p. 588 |
| "A Defense of Abortion" | p. 594 |
| "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" | p. 604 |
| "War and Massacre" | p. 611 |
| "Active and Passive Euthanasia" | p. 621 |
| "The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn" | p. 625 |
| Leviathan, selections | p. 636 |
| "The Social Contract"* | p. 653 |
| "Social Liberty"* | p. 664 |
| "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844," selections | p. 678 |
| "The Original Position and the Principles of Justice"* | p. 684 |
| "A Libertarian Critique of Rawls"* | p. 694 |
| The Existence and Nature of God | |
| "The Ontological Argument"* | p. 709 |
| "The Five Ways - Question II, Third Article" | p. 711 |
| "The Cosmological Argument and the Principle of Sufficient Reason" | p. 713 |
| Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, selections | p. 719 |
| "Theology and Falsification" | p. 751 |
| "A Refutation of Arguments from Evil" | p. 753 |
| "Evil and Omnipotence" | p. 757 |
| "The Magnitude, Duration, and Distribution of Evil: A Theodicy," selections | p. 764 |
| Reason and Faith | |
| "On Miracles," selections | p. 772 |
| "On the Importance of Christianity and the Nature of Historical Evidence, and Miracles," selections | p. 777 |
| "The Wager" | p. 784 |
| "The Ethics of Belief," selections | p. 786 |
| "The Will to Believe" | p. 792 |
| "Deciding to Believe" | p. 802 |
| "Of the Standard of Taste" | p. 815 |
| "The Nature of Aesthetic Judgment"* | p. 824 |
| "What Is Art?" selections | p. 830 |
| "When Is Art?" | p. 838 |
| "The Artistic Enfranchisement of Real Objects: The Artworld" | p. 844 |
| "What Is Art? An Institutional Analysis" | p. 852 |
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